Sentences with phrase «growing number of school»

A growing number of school districts in tornado or hurricane hot spots, many with grants from FEMA, have chosen this option.

A small but growing number of school districts are receiving «ransom demands» from hackers who threaten to make public confidential student information stolen from district computers.

«We are hearing from a growing number of school districts that the lack of funding is taking a toll on our students.

Nationwide, a growing number of school systems and states have begun to include student data in teacher evaluations.

Restorative justice — which has been adopted by a growing number of school districts — is considered an effective tool in reducing suspensions.

This work has seeded a growing number of school - based programs around the state and continues to grow.

A growing number of school districts in the U.S. have adopted Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) curricula to combat this.

In 2013, Moody's Investor Service, a bond credit rating agency, released a report which concluded that a small but growing number of school districts face severe financial stress as charter schools proliferate, specifically because these districts can't reduce their costs as quickly as they lose revenue.

A growing number of school districts now provide college admissions testing to high school juniors at no charge in an effort to help more students access college.

INDIANAPOLIS - One area school district has joined a growing number of school districts nationwide and will shift their start times to later in the morning.

One area school district has joined a growing number of school districts nationwide and will shift their start times to later in the morning.

Over the past decade, a growing number of school districts have implemented policies with the express purpose of integrating their schools by students» economic status.

A growing number of school - based police are being equipped with the recording devices.

This webinar will examine what a growing number of school and technology advocates have identified as the core elements of personalized learning.

Released today by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes, at Stanford University, the study comes as a growing number of school districts and charter schools around the country are experimenting with such reward programs in the hope of improving...

A growing number of school districts are creating mobile meals programs to keep children well - fed over the summer.

Comprehensive, innovative arts initiatives are taking root in a growing number of school districts.

So along with the growing number of schools that offer degrees and programs in gaming, KontrolFreek aims to expand the idea of the «student - athlete» by offering scholarships that are over $ 2,000.

In a small but growing number of schools, students watch lectures online and come to class prepared to tackle assignments and collaborate with teachers and peers.

Children and resources will begin to flow to nonunion schools, and unions will find themselves with fewer members, less money, and a growing number of schools and teachers that are outside the traditional system and difficult to organize.

DMD is one of a growing number of schools nationwide exploring a Linked Learning curricula.

The major thrust of the initiative will be to disseminate the ideas and practices pioneered by James P. Comer, the Yale University child psychiatrist whose beliefs about the inseparability of social and academic development have been embraced by a growing number of schools.

There are a growing number of schools weaving craftsmanship into the learning culture.

According to RM Education's latest annual survey, a growing number of schools are now considering outsourcing and co-sourcing their IT support in order to keep up with the constant changes in technologyand minimise overall support costs.

So what are the key influencing factors driving a growing number of schools to outsource or co-source?

For a growing number of schools, online payments have become the preferred way of ensuring that parents» money is received by school safely and in the case of dinner money, spent in the way it was intended — on a healthy school meal.

A growing number of schools are also now engaging security officers during school hours.

A harder task, which a growing number of schools are proving can be done, is to convert an entire school to embrace new practices that fulfill the changing educational demands of our age.

If the students at SOTA — and at a growing number of schools and centers across the country — are any indication, he may be right.

Like a rapidly growing number of schools around the nation, Ms. Dubos said, hers is considering using portfolios as a way of measuring student performance in writing.

A growing number of schools are using pupil premium funding for disadvantaged pupils to offset budget cuts, according to polling published by the Sutton Trust and the Education Endowment Foundation.

Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of the Sutton Trust and of the Education Endowment Foundation, said: «It is worrying that a growing number of schools feel they have to use funding for disadvantaged pupils to offset budget cuts.

In a growing number of schools, educators are echoing Papert's assertion that engaging students by starting with the concrete and solving hands - on, real - world problems is a great motivator.

We find a growing number of schools, especially those run by management organizations, are choosing to opt out of state pension plans.

With White House support, a growing number of schools nationally are turning to restorative methods because of research suggesting that it is a more productive way — compared to suspensions — to support students who are caught up in cycles of disruptive behavior.

As Innosight Institute has written in several reports, there are a growing number of schools and districts across the country that are implementing blended - learning models.

Over the past decade, a growing number of schools and districts have integrated based on students» socioeconomic status rather than by race or ethnicity.

• A growing number of schools, particularly predominantly white schools, have become hostile environments for racial and religious minorities and other vulnerable groups.

This will be a tough planning challenge for national and local government, against a background of spending constraints and growing numbers of schools moving outside of local education authority control.

«It is worrying that a growing number of schools feel they have to use funding for disadvantaged pupils to offset budget cuts.

In an effort to be more proactive in identifying students» needs and providing them with appropriate services, growing numbers of schools and districts have adopted early warning indicators (EWIs), often drawing on the work of organizations such as the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins and the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research.

A small but growing number of schools are using their funding for disadvantaged pupils to offset budget cuts elsewhere, according to new polling published by the Sutton Trust and the Education Endowment Foundation today.

A rapidly growing number of schools have made a momentous discovery: When teachers regularly and collaboratively review assessment data for the purpose of improving practice to reach measurable achievement goals, something magical happens.

«Each time a new charter school is opened, students leave existing schools, both charter and DCPS, to attend the new charters, and our taxpayer dollars are spread thinner across a growing number of schools,» Suzanne Wells and Valerie Jablow, two D.C. Public Schools parents, wrote in an open letter to city education leaders urging more cooperative planning.

Some states have also been slow to adapt teacher - licensing requirements to the reality that a growing numbers of schools and districts are exploring or implementing social - emotional learning....

The growing number of schools that now schedule time for teacher collaboration during the school day proves that where there is a will, there is a way!

In addition, as a growing number of schools adopt social and emotional learning (SEL) as part of their curricula, a personalized approach helps to maximize the impact of SEL on the individual student.

Those companies have found a ready market among the small but growing number of schools and communities giving DIY broadband a try.

In the past decade or so, a growing number of schools have adopted curricula on social and emotional learning, including an emphasis on growth mindsets (as defined by psychologist Carol Dweck of Stanford) and developing a stick - to - it quality called grit (as explored by Angela Duckworth of the University of Pennsylvania).

A growing number of schools are providing «regular» students with the opportunity to be involved in individualized education planning after recognizing the effectiveness of the approach.